Data Entry Keyers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,882
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$5,818
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,294
Alaska costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alaska — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$40,700
Kept after tax
$34,882
Worth in national money
$34,294
State rank
24
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Alaska is 24 of 49 states for data entry keyers, with a middle wage of $40,700. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Alaska this is lower-paid work. Of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, data entry keyers ranks 386. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $40,700 the take-home is $34,882, which is worth about $34,294 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $47,850, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska ranks 24 of 49 for data entry keyers at $40,700. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Alaska reports, data entry keyers ranks 386 of 430, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for data entry keyers on its $40,700 median: $34,882 retained after tax becomes $34,294 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $47,850 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Data Entry Keyers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,700 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,550 |
| This salary | $40,700 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Alaska | $34,882 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,882 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,602 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $40,700 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,938 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of data entry keyers in Alaska earn under $40,700 and half over. The published range runs $35,180 at the tenth percentile to $68,550 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $34,882, worked from $40,700. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 386 of 430.
- Two cautions on $34,294, the adjusted value of that $40,700 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alaska. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 386 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for data entry keyers in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,180 to $68,550; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Alaska take-home of $34,882, on $40,700 for work ranking 386 of 430 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 386 of 430 in the state.
- This $34,294 adjusted figure, worked from $40,700, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 386 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 386 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $47,850 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $35,180 and the top tenth $68,550 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Alaska costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $34,294 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $34,882 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Alaska is $47,850. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($35,180) and the ninetieth ($68,550) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Alaska's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $34,294 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Alaska levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $34,882 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.